I'm still rewriting an old story I did last summer (it got lost in a computer crash), but I wanted to write a new one at the same time. Unfortunately, all I generally write is the usual realistic stuff where the guy in the hat kills the other guy in the hat but I can't even come up with a good bad guy to use.
So, I was wondering what all of you think a good bad guy would be. Not just for me. But just kind of like the "cliche" thread with various types of bad guys.
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Mär 10, 2008 - 16 16
The handsome devil... rotten to the core, but with the face of an angel. Usually charismatic and charming to boot. May have a hard time convincing some characters that he really is bad.
The tortured monster... has a really good reason for being bad, but is totally irredeemable (or not... sometimes it's nice to give your bad guy a second chance.)
The really, really, bad guy... this isn't a bad guy who has any chance of being redeemed... he's well and truly evil. Probably the rarest beast in fiction. :) HE has no good qualities, other than maybe his absolute devotion to being bad.
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Mär 15, 2008 - 12 36
Oh baddies, I love them so. You can have the not-really-a-baddie, where they just see an issue from a different point of view and are extremely sympathetic. You can have the Iago, the traitorous bastard the hero would trust with his life. The serpent, the "where we are there are daggers in men's smiles" kind of guy, charming (maybe), creepy, fox-like, cunning. They're so much fun to write. But they can sound cheesy if you don't do it right. The power hungry tyrant, robber-barren sort of guy who may not be "evil" but just cold and uncaring. I like my baddies unevil it makes them way more believable. Anyway, the baddie really depends on the hero and the story.
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Mär 15, 2008 - 20 18
Hmm... id say a good movie that will help is 3:10 to Yuma (it is a western but you can get all sorts of cool ideas/stuff from it)
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Mär 31, 2008 - 15 29
So, I was wondering what all of you think a good bad guy would be. Not just for me. But just kind of like the "cliche" thread with various types of bad guys.
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I tried to be perfect, it just wasn't worth it.
I don't know how it got so bad.
It's hard to believe me, it never gets easy.
I guess I knew it all along.
guys in hats, hmmm. that makes me think pulp heroes. I love those guys!
facial scars are always good. there's the corupt politician, pirate captain, vampire, gangsta, gangster, demon